Ben Cousins has reportedly been arrested in WA

FALLEN AFL star Ben Cousins has been arrested again in Western Australia, adding yet another sad chapter to his life.

Ben Cousins is in trouble again.

FALLEN AFL star Ben Cousins has reportedly been arrested.

The former West Coast Eagles and Richmond midfielder was allegedly picked up by police in Canning Vale, Western Australia, on Tuesday night for breaching a violence restraining order.

He is expected to appear in court later on Wednesday.

If the 38-year-old man in custody is Cousins — as has been reported — it would represent yet another low in the tragic story that is the premiership player’s life.

Late last month he was hospitalised following a car crash, which occurred the day after a warrant was issued for his arrest for failing to appear in a Perth court. On that occasion he was expected to appear in Armadale Magistrates Court on charges of possessing methamphetamine and two counts of breaching a violence restraining order over an incident in October.

That incident involved his ex-girlfriend, whom he was warned to stay away from. Cousins told the court he was confused whether he had to stay away from the person protected — the mother of his two children, aged 3 and 5.

Cousins also made headlines in July when he was found directing traffic on a busy Perth highway in a disoriented state and was taken to hospital.

During that incident, police were called to the Canning Highway after Cousins had spent up to three hours with window washers and appeared “lost, confused, making no sense at all”, according to one witness.

He reportedly tried to jump on the back of a moving motorcycle.

Last year, he was assessed at a mental health facility after breaking into Perth’s Special Air Service Regiment.

Cousins leaving court in October.

Cousins was a star of West Coast’s 2006 premiership-winning team, but his career and life descended into a downward spiral due to his problems with substance abuse.

A gun midfielder in his prime, Cousins captained the Eagles and was a six-time All Australian. He was named the AFL Rising Star in 1996.

But things went south after the Perth club’s grand final win a decade ago. He was suspended by the club in early 2007 and spent time in an American rehab facility, then in October that year he was arrested for drug possession and banned from playing in the AFL for 12 months.

Richmond offered the fallen star a lifeline when they selected him in the pre-season draft late in 2008. He played 32 games for the Tigers, the last of which was in 2010.

No other club wanted to recruit Cousins once his ban was lifted, but Richmond felt obliged to give him the chance to get his life back on track.

West Coast Eagles chief executive Trevor Nisbett said earlier this year he was still upset the club wasn’t able to help Cousins turn his life around, and feared for his safety every day.

“I guess the disappointing thing is we weren’t able to salvage Ben out of the wreck,” Nisbett told Channel Nine’s The Footy Show.

“I worry (about Cousins) every day. We would like him to be healthy and well and getting on with his life like a 36- or 37-year-old should be doing.

“But we are not sure what space he is in at the moment.”